“Given today’s news, there needs to be an independent audit of ECOT’s books going back to before Yost’s office dropped the ball in 2014. Who knows how many more millions ECOT has wasted over the years?

“Dave Yost can run around Columbus claiming he wants to clean up the mess he created with ECOT — but we’ll be there to hold him accountable from now until November 2018. Ohio’s next attorney general needs to be someone who has the record and integrity to hold special interests like ECOT accountable and make the office accountable to Ohioans — not their donors.”